Wallace shows the evolution of obama’s calling the panti-bomber from “isolated extremist” to “known terrorist”, with two intermediary phrases. Panel is discussing.
Kristol says obama using the phrase an “isolated extremist”, three days AFTER the bombing is very worrisome; shows obama’s wishful thinking that it was so.
Juan defends obama and says the whole thing has been “politicized”.
I'm sure Juan means unlike what happened for eight years under President GW Bush's efforts to keep us safe. (/sarc)
I don’t think president zero has an original thought in his head. Any first comments are still programmed by his speech writers and repeated by zero. Then, once the poop hits the fan, they have to reconsider it and have him speak on the issue again to set the record straight or clear air in giving him cover for the first comment.
The more one thinks about it, this happens time after time with 0.
Juan needs to learn, terrorists don’t need a community organizer helping them.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31311.html
Will the Sunday shows ever change?
By MICHAEL CALDERONE | 1/10/10 7:08 AM EST
A new idea recently surfaced for television’s longest-running show: What if “Meet the Press” fact-checked what its stream of political guests said and ran the results online later in the week?
The suggestion by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen kicked around Twitter and the blogosphere with such force that the show’s host, David Gregory, said in a statement to POLITICO that it was a “good idea” and his staff is “going to talk about it.”
Change comes slowly to the venerable shows that grip the attention of a small but committed segment of TV watchers every Sunday morning. And taking risks almost never happens, or why would ABC be negotiating with Ted Koppel, who at age 69 made his reputation covering Henry Kissinger and the Iranian hostage situation, to replace George Stephanopoulos as the host of “This Week”?
The shows are particularly ripe targets for critics who see them as the epitome of insider Washington and conventional wisdom. James Wolcott, writing in Vanity Fair last year, for example, described watching the show that Stephanopoulos recently vacated to be “like receiving an engraved invitation to apoplexy.”
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Is he complaining? Because he sure seemed to enjoy politicizing EVERYTHING Bush did.
It all comes down to who's ox is getting gored.